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by asdflkj 19y ago
And that is the answer to the old question of "When is it a good idea to plug my site?"--when you've made something people want, in that particular situation.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
It would be difficult to verify. Many cultures have great stigma associated with mental illness, and their people will go to great lengths to conceal it in their family. China is a prominent example.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Even if we ignore for a second the fact that the Apple slogan takes 4.25" on my screen while your thing takes 10.5", there is this: you are not introducing the best iPods ever. You are asking the user to perform a very trivial stage in the
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Great idea, but the site is ugly. This is probably the worst non-animated thing I have ever seen on the web: http://readr.com/images/verify_email.png?1189560575
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by asdflkj 19y ago
If they go after individual users, this might be much more effective than when RIAA did it. Most people would much rather settle than get that kind of publicity, especially if their tastes are less than mainstream.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
It probably doesn't have an official name for itself in English. "Kolsky" means "of Kola" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Peninsula ), and there are several ways of transliterating it into English. "Research Institute", too, could be on
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by asdflkj 19y ago
How can you buy something you already own?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Can anyone explain this comment to me? What are the "bad vibes"?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
>Why would blackwater violate a contract with a paying customer? Because their other paying customers, who pay them much more than you do, will compell them to? >Power is not zero-sum. Trade is positive sum. That is very, very basi
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Congratulations, you're one data point.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
He could always ask them after accepting (or even rejecting).
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by asdflkj 19y ago
>1) Buy or find an island around the size of Manhattan. This shouldn't be too hard. That's impossible. Unlike wealth, power is a zero-sum game, and a new country (of the kind that matters) is against the interests of everyone who has po
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by asdflkj 19y ago
You can blame the tools if the only kind of intent they let designers get closer to is misguided intent. I can't think of a single use for non-standard fonts. In that, they are much like flashing images or control over the LEDs on your keyb
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Wasn't plentyoffish the first free one? After that, network effects is all that matters.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
The word "arbitrary" has several meanings, but for each instance of its use, there is only one meaning, and the context determines which one it is. In the definition of "whim", the meaning of "arbitrary" is not one you mentioned, but this o
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by asdflkj 19y ago
No, i don't have any evidence, other than anecdotal. It's what I would prefer, because changing the password from random to something that I might remember is an extra step, and an unnecessary one unless security really matters (e.g. money
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by asdflkj 19y ago
"Subjective preference" and "whim" are two completely different things. Let's look at the post that started all of this: "Don't leave your fate up to someone else's whim". If you replace that with "Don't leave your fate up to someone else's
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by asdflkj 19y ago
And if you gave the option to users of being able to retrieve their old password or have a new one generated, most would choose the former. And if you explained the drawbacks and advantages of each approach and made the user make an informe
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Iminlikewithyou.com is invite only. If you've been invited, it's not undiscovered. If you haven't been invited, then discovering it does nothing for you. This suggests to me that either pcmag people aren't very clever, or (more likely) this
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by asdflkj 19y ago
That's a meaningless statement. Are you implying there is a definite line between secure and insecure systems? That's false. Are you saying that given a choice between a security feature and a convenience feature, most users will choose the
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by asdflkj 19y ago
They are labeled as ads. Is "grok" really the world you were looking for?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Obviously, you're not a typical user (unless the website in question is geared toward security enthusiasts, maybe). We admire your conscientiousness, but your preferences are more or less irrelevant for someone who wants to figure out what
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I think everything went exactly right. Most people who use Ebay know it like the back of their hand, simply from experience. Gradually adding new stuff isn't stressful for users, compared to a redesign, and rocking the boat is the last thin
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Are you intentionally using the phrase "subject to" to obscure your logic? It could mean "likely to be affected by", or it could mean "dependent on". The meaning changes completely.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Truly excellent web design is never found in such lists. A good webpage, especially something as simple as a blog, makes the text easy to read and the structure of the site easy to see, and gets out of the way. It's more or less a solved pr
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Because your selection of truths carries a message in itself. Compare "Bush, a Yale graduate, started a war" to "Bush, who didn't fight in Vietnam, started a war". Both statements are true. In our case, the message is more subtle, but it's
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by asdflkj 19y ago
It is a trade off, but it doesn't seem foolish. There is no full enjoyment, just varying degrees of almost-full enjoyment. A house that somebody lives in will always look worse than a house that has been prepared to look its absolute swank
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by asdflkj 19y ago
It would be interesting if there existed a medium somewhere between Lego and molecules, in scale and versatility. A sort of programming language for physical stuff, and one that's usable enough to create Things People Want, or at least prot
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by asdflkj 19y ago
While the "essential character" stuff sound like a thinly veiled attempt to show off that the building is old and therefore valuable, I can see a different argument against full restoration. Gentle signs of aging, as long as you don't erase
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by asdflkj 19y ago
There are people who say that name-calling is not an ad hominem unless is it explicitly claims causal connection between one's character and one's argument, with words like "because" (eg "you're wrong BECAUSE you're an idiot"). Here is one

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